SINCE launching his sophisticated street-style blog The Sartorialist four years ago, Scott Schuman has gone from freelance aspirant to high-end fashion photographer, shooting regularly for GQ and style.com and appearing in an ad for The Gap.

The 41-year-old has compiled his favorite images in a new, largely text-free book “The Sartorialist” ($25), which will most likely be found on those tables at Anthropologie. Why a book now? “A lot of people were approaching me,” he says. All right then.

There are a few great shots of an older man you affectionately call “bald fat man,” but you don’t shoot larger women. Why?

They turn me down more than anyone. I think a lot of larger women feel disenfranchised by fashion. If you’re self-conscious, you could, like [fashion writer] Lynn Yaeger, focus on color, patterns and fabrics. But a lot of larger women go, “Oh, I can’t find that Balenciaga dress in my size.”

Why so many pictures of Kanye West?

Kanye reads my site. As a guy from the Midwest, using style and artistry to take yourself from the middle-class to the next level, I relate to him. When you get a lot of money, you can buy a lot of clothes, but you can’t buy style. I totally appreciate his naked ambition.

You’ve said you feel conflicted about posting pictures of people smoking.

Some people smoke. I don’t. A lot of people will hide the cigarette — they’re very conscious of it. But it’s the same thing with a fur coat. Should I say, “I don’t believe in fur, so can you take the coat off?”

Are you anti-fur?

I really don’t have an opinion. It makes me wonder what the divisive things were 100 years ago. Bonnets?

Are there pockets of New York that yield more stylish people per square foot than others?

Harlem, on Sunday, after church. Fifty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue. SoHo. The East Village.